I have quoted Dr Rupert Read, a philosopher at the University of East Anglia and Green Party politician, here before. This tweet and the related link to the Byline Times on the coronavirus crisis is worth reading. It's not a happy tale:
EXCLUSIVES TO BYLINE TIMES
'A National Scandal': A Timeline of the UK Government’s Woeful Response to the Coronavirus Crisis
A countdown to disaster by Ian Sinclair and @GreenRupertRead https://t.co/AmVhr5pr5A pic.twitter.com/sB29m8Ktkb— Byline (@Byline_Media) April 11, 2020
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For those interested in Scotland’s stats, there’s an excellent site at
https://www.travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker/
This is an excellent piece of evidence for Johnson & Co’s culpability.
According to the FT the failures over PPE are due to “high demand”. (and no one knew?)
Meanwhile Turkey sends us 250K items of PPE and Germany 60 ventilators.
The FT reports 3million go hungry in UK.
In any other sphere those responsible for such an unholy mess would have been summarily sacked and charged with criminal negligence.
For comparison
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/americans-are-paying-the-price-for-trumps-failures/609532/
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-are-sick-lost-february/608521/